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foss alternatives for social media apps (lemm.ee)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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hello im trying to find good foss alternatives to apps like discord, facebook, and others that are foss and federated are there any possable apps out there that are like that?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Trillian was just a UI that put all your contacts in the same window. You couldn't talk across protocols, or merge the same user contact across multiple protocols.

Think of Matrix as a unified protocol from which AIM, MSN, ICQ would have all been based. And so if someone is on AIM but you registered on MSN, you can still talk. And at the fundamental level, it looks like IRC. It is the opportunity to re-baseline everything on a standard that is open and supports end to end encryption.

So while bridges would be needed today, the idea is that some time in the future these services would re-baseline on the Matrix protocol, or be displaced for whatever market reason by a startup that chose to baseline on Matrix.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Ok, seems I was on the right track. Thanks for clarifying!